Accident Database

Report ID#68343

1969-12-31
accident date
Mathew Parker
victim
n/a
victim age
Artle beck
river
n/a
section
north west england
location
n/a
gage
Medium
water level
III
river difficulty
cause code(s)
n/a
injury type(s)
n/a
factors
Private
trip type
Whitewater Kayak
boat type
status?
status

Description

Narrative by (do not publish name) on 2016-04-18 (DO NOT PUBLISH): Mathew Parker was an experianced paddler who worked in a kayaking shop he was paddling on what would have been an easy river for him. as he went round the corner his boat got pinned under a tree his mates held his head up above for the water well help arrived where he was pronounced dead on scene as he had died of hypothermia.